-FL -~-, *-e~" --: - >)tinWV L Ma V I L A K ...E ..... "S- CL PH . A O .VOLUME VI. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1893. NO. 18.WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN. 1Uacle often tells s storie1Cf a ship he has at se,And the wonders and the Rgori%It we're good, for Tom and me;And I dream that somewher esailingIs a gallant bark of mine,With the soft wind never falling,And the weather always fine.Opl the bells will all be ringing IWith a merry, tuneful din,The birds will all be singing,When my ship comes in!She s bringling tfts for mother,And for father and the boysAna my little baby brotherShall be smothered deep in toys; 1fer hold is full of treasureFrom the isle4Ad of the main.And her fairy rrew at leisureAre seil-p home aganlObh the pleasure past all rhyming,And the joy that will begin,When all the bells are chbiming,And my ship comes in!There are storms and sudden dangersHidlng cruelly aroun l, iWhero just such oqean rangersAs my fairy bark are fdt&nt.Blow, breath of heaven, behind her,And guide her safely home,And some day t shall find her- t17 ship from o'er the foam!Oh! the birds will sll be singingWhen her crew the haven win; PThe bells will all be ringing 0When my ship comes in! a-Mary J. Farrah, in St Nicholas oAT HUCKLEBERRY HILL. tRsttlefr Caneo Trouble and Ter- trift Grandpa Connor. aEvery year people flock to Huckle- s'berry hil! from away up in Steuben a'county, N. Y.; from clear over in MeKean county, the furthest parts of Pot-.ter county, and distant sections of iiT:Tog county, says a Roulette (Pa) ocorrespondent of the New York Sun.Huckleberry bill is the only place bwithin a radius of fifty miles where the Sfruit for which it is named grows in J'any quantity, and the people of all that tcountry being especially fond of huckle- t`berries they think nothing of driving fcall night nmd a part of a day to get on fcthe prolific barrens of" Hluckleberry athill, where several square miles ofnothing but berry bushes and sword- °like brakes spread beneath the scorch- reina sun. The hill is one thonshnd feet rabove the valley of Pine creek, in east- pern Potter county, and abounds in iseamed ledges and tumbled heaps of inloose rocks. Whole families camp for'days on this forbidding barren to pickhuckleberries for market As many as hione thousand five hundred persons have anbeen on the hill at one time, where thdaneing platforms, hurdy gurdles, open- thair gin mills, brass bands, and all kindsof faking schemes are in full blast to sboamuse and fleece the visitors wtLike all good huckleberry districts, MHuckleberry hill is a favorite haunt ofrattlesnakes, and they grow there todiextraordinary size and virility. These heanakes keep many pickers on the movefrom one part of the big berry patch to jaCanother part, for they are always salaround, and some huckleberry visitors ldo not care to dispute territory with Ilethem, but retreat to other points assoon as they can discover a rattler or gothear one in their vicinity. Others, thithough, are loath to give up a good hispicking place because a rattlesnake ortwo are taking 'thin comfortable pathere and don't care t'be disturbed, r Fand they pitch in with clubs and routor slay the reptile tenant of the spot.So at almost any time of day a visitormay see men, women and children, isome of them pa and terror-stricken, whmoving away froit some particular lo- fitcality with much haste, and others buxthrashing away in the bushes withclubs and holding their own againstthe snakes rNot a day passes that some one isn'tbit by a rattler When the berry pick- theera return from the hill to their varioushomes they fetch with them stories of glirqueer and exciting experiences with Corrattlesnakes that some one has had.This recital has come to be known brohereabouts as the annual crop of snake Lgstories from Huckleberry ilL The inggathering of this crop is awaited with cwllmore fihterest by many people than the hwlpicking of the huckleberry crop. haAmong the%est- of these stories that thave reached roulette, which is thirty themiles from the hill, but which sends acaravan of huckleberry pickers there aevery seasoo, are these: morMrs. Justona, of Leetonia, had found toIa pateh where the berries were espe- erdoIlly fine and abundant Shite was igrapidly filling her twelve-quart pail, enmuch to the envy of Miss Still, a friend alinof hers, who hadn't struck extraordi- the.nary luck. Suddenly gr~ Juston picked goirup her pail and walked away from her quarichnd without saying a word. Miss witlStill gad after her in amazement, andaked he if aIbe wasn't coming beck to stopthat Lovly spot in r"No," said Mrs. Juston. "You can snaihae it if you want it" He eMiss Still thanked Mrs. Juston effu- fronsdt ,y tor her great generosity and ua- likeseikhasIps and was soon sweeping the and, b sat her pall just where Mrs. strjilto had picked up her phil so sud- allell· and walked away. Miss Still was tr.a Pltlon that brought her face the,$umast p4ed with her pal, and is she slee-,~am psktag sway, twoblgrattlesakes saks"Ip up t-eem somewhsere bebad the it anPJ5MU id tuk theirugly mose oer the apd1sdeliit, not two feet away from Miss deatStlltseae For an tistait the young CaSwagu was unable to move, bat then et.hstaireg's hmdlf, sprang up and long*mr~esf uew p ktag spot, laughing .1 antam, bhi thouht wa a o oo fjake hadThs gsewre of Mre Jstos'ooguwere- lug t, .r wJ e neled to like Still sad it mdizmtls ere so agry that she satopped wasruPim; -hunated around until she awiseud atdab. sand hastened beck to her his giubsinbsgd r pall The sasrss were time- *I: end Miss St pithlt d late cand~IS ~w ere ugly and baght her ersan~s had it hese twv' wlOdito rts biwaaN retired among the group of pickers ath distance to rest aind be congratulatedon her pluck, Mrs. Justoin, r.ein thatthe land had been cleared for her, returned to the choice picking patch thatthe had so unselflishly renounced herclaim to in favor of Miss. St 11, and cresumed her picking there. When MissStill went back to go on with her pickIng she was knocked out more than shehad been by the first sight of the tworattlers leering at her over her pail to Sfind that Mrs. Juston had taken posmes- vsion of those bushes. She remonstrated twith her."I guess I was here first," was all ethat dfrs. Juston would say, and iss tStill had to retire to such luck -lT e "could find. eMrs. Juston's pail soon got so heavy Iiwith berries that she let it stand on theground while she went here and therewith a smaller pail which she carried -as it was filled to the big pail and emptied its berries in that. She was mak- fiing the fourth trip to the big pail, nwhich would have filled it even full of hthe very nicest berries that had ever hbeen picked on the Hill, when other hpickers near heard her give a tremend- eCous yell, and run away, pale as a sheet $and ler eyes bulging. Miss Still and iias others ran to the spot. The young iswoman got there first. She discoveredthe cause of Mrs. Juston's alarm. An O1enormous rattlesnake lay coiled on oftop of the huckleberries in the ceW. twelve-quart pail, with his head erect Band his tail more than humming. Miss aStill grabbed a club and went for the a'kle- snake. The first whack of the club alben somehow missed the snake, but it hit itMc- Mrs. Juston's pail of berries, upset it, a''ot- and sent its luscious contents scatter.of ing on the ground. The snake wentover with the berries. and was ready asn. or fight in a second. Miss Still gave it to glace him, but in dealing with him she didn't sIthe seem to be able to get away from Mrs. saain Juston's spilled berries, and even when cchat the snake got enough of the club and ttkle- turned to wiggle away in the bruth "ing Miss Still didn't appear to be able to peon follow hiim, but stood in the midst of Pthe spilled berries and danced about, heof striking at the snake that was awayrd- out of.her reach, so that by the time the ofch- attler disappeared in a crack in the toeet rock Mrs. Juston's berries were tram- toat- pled to a pulp. Some of Mrs. Juston's ttin friends said that Miss Still did it on taof purpose, but Miss Still went off smil- afor ingly to her picking, and said nothing. mnIck James Conner, aged seventy, and aas his grandson Charley, aged ten, wereare among the ,huckleberry pickers on orer the hill Grandfather Conner goten- tired, and got in the shadownds of a rock to take a nap. Grand- duto son Charley perched on the rock and hawent to observing things. After old anMr. Connor had been snoozing a few ertminutes he opened his eyes, raised his ovahead, and told his grandson that if he Citdidn't quit punching him m the back SIae he would get a switch and dress his ofjacket. Grandson Connor hadn't been lypunching the old man in the back, and IIys said so. Mr. Connor dropped off to astrs sleep again. By and by he woke up Pwith start, steriply addressed his grandas son again, charging the boy with punch- oni ing hun in the back, and asaurirg hiw cu]that a repetition of it would bring on aP(his head dire punishment. The boy betor pleaded his innocence of the charge, ania, [ and the old man went to sleep kgain. halSr in a short time he awoke with a start serand exclaimed: ant"or There you go again, you young ras- loI cal! Now I'll trounce you well!" a hn, I le rose up to carry out his threat, an, when the boy's eyes, which had become boifixed on the old man's back, began torh bulge, and he shouted:at "There's a snake on your bac:dgrandpa! There's a snake on yor back!'''C Grandfather Connor, feeling a weightk- there, had glanced over his shoulder, igand saw a snake writhing and wrig wh,i gling and rattling there, hanging tc belsConnor's clothing by its teeth. With a berd. yell like a wild Indian the old man arn broke across Huckleberry hill, howling welat every jump, and his grandson bring- ishiSing up the rear, bellowing like a bull of th calf. The sight of the old man dashing thetwildly along with a big rattlesnal:e thehanging to his back created great ex- peit citement among the groups of pickers 3that the frantic procession tore sireSthrounh, and some groups broke up in ovea panic and rushed yelling in all direc- ltions through the bushes. Connor ran seamore than two miles, the snake clinging wasd to him, when he passed a man named theSHenry Clark. Clark gaed after the fly- a ain~ lg old man with the snake trailing and elthScontorting behind him before he re- hand alized the true situation of affairs, and estSthen he start.d in pursuit Connor wasSgoing so fast that Clark chased him a dair quarter of a mile before he came up of ISwith him, the old man running all the alwafaster the more Clark yelled to him to wheo stop. When Connor's pursuer got with- m ain reach of him he grabbed for the quala snake and caught it firmly by the tail stiteHe gave it a yank, and jerked it loose worfrom its fastenings on the old man, but fullI- like a flash the rattler threw its head todi and whole length of its body back andstruck at Clark. The latter mechan- oulIcally jerked his head back, or the rat Ana tler's fangs would have struck him in betSthe eneek. As it was they sank in his tons leeve at the shoulders. and before the thata soak could release them Clark seized willit armond the neck with his left hand oa apd held itthere uantil he choked it to andI death.Conner in the meantime had droppedelhausted to the groad, and it was along time before he eculd be revived.When the boy came p pantibtag anderying, and td his srr the acrq- Tosanues of the case wr plI. Con. r goodhad lad adown near where the sake agiliwas tn hidig, and the rattles, net lk slumIng the pdi, bd stru as ht ed hit limto thbe ok, bh his shirt anskiwas so tylek that all the old aia felt potswas the thamp. whih he theght was of thi grandlma peeahlan him. be third tegeltime the sanake strek its thage had ar, snaght nuder one of Conmr'"a aspead- p$xu.,arndet aesast nt, 4 It ws heal adelg there Whoa it wa dieovrede i p by mpsthe boy sad hIs grveadftiw, nsad the nsue.14 ansa'r .snr bmtarteid htA on Eis the fqM~J~i~~~~~i ~ ~ as ayr at USEFUL AND SUOGGSTIVE.datedthat -Jelly Pie.-One cupful of fruit Juicer, re- or jelly, one cupful of sugar, one egg,that and one tablespoonful of cornstarch.I her Mix all together and bake with twoand crusts.-Housekeeper.tiss --Gelatine Icing for Cakes.-Onepick- scant tablespoonful of gelatine, disn she solved in two tablespoons of hot water;two mix with powdered sugar till quite.il to stiff, spread on the cake and smoothuse.- with a knife dipped in hot water.-Derated tetuit Pree Press.-Delicious Fried Eggs.--Melt justs all enough butter to grease the bottom ofiss the pan, then add the eggs, taking carsnot to break the yolks Cover, andcook till the white is all set, or longerenvy if you like the yolk hard. Eggs friedn the thus are .- immeasurably_ better thanthere when cooked by the ordinary method.rried -Ladies' Home Journalamp- -Feather Cake.--One egg, one cuprak- ful of sugar, butter the size of a walpail, nut, half a cupful of sweet milk, one11 of heaping teaspoon of cream of tartar,ever half a teaspoonful of soda, one and ather half cupfuls of sifted flour; stir onlyend- enough to mix well. By using differentheet flavorings I have a variety of cake. Itand iS excellent for jelly, cocoanut or any)ng layer cake.erwet -Gingerette-One gallon of water,An one pound white sugar, one-half ounceon of best ginger root, one-fourth ounce ofthe cream of tartar, and two sliced lemons.Bret Boil ginger and lemons ten minutes inliss a part of the water; dissolve the sugar 4the and cream of tartar in cold water; mix cclub all, and add one gill of good yeast. Let ehit it ferment through the night, and straint it, and bottle in the morning.-Bostontter Globe.vent -Cornmeal Cake.-Scald a quart of I,ady sweet milk at night and stir into it cit to gradually a pint of corn-meal, a table- cdn't spoonful of butter and a teaspoonful of IMrs. salt. Mix together well and set in arhen cool place to rise. In the morning add cand two well beaten eggs and beat the c.uh whole thoroughly, as its excellence de- cSto petids on this; then bake in buttered 1t of pans thirty minutes Cut and serve aoat. hot-Orange Judd Farmer.way --Chocolate Pudding.-Let one pint ithe of milk come tc the boiling point; mix athe together one-half cupful of sugar, two aam. tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, a Een's tiny pinch of salt and two heapingon tablespoonfuls of corn starch; wet withnil- a little cold milk and stir into the boil- fing. ing milk. When it thickens pour into cand a wet mould and set in a cool place. trer, Serve with cream, sweetened and flavon ored with vanilla.-Housekeeper. t-ot -Cherry Dumpling.-In cherry time blow I often make what is called cherry vend- dumpling. Fill a deep earthen dish 1Iand half full of stoned cherries, with sugar told and a little water, cover with a thick iifew crust made as for biscuit, and steam ahis over a kettle of boiling water until thehe crust is done. It may be eaten with uack sauce made of one part butter and two ahis of-sugar stirred to a cream; or with on- reen ly sugar and cherry juice for a sauce. Iiand I make a similar crust for cherry pies, ato as I long ago discarded rich pastry.- aup Prairie Farmer. itnd- -Elve's Pudding.-Three cups flour, tch- one cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, one caimw cup molasses into which stir one tea- Oon spoon soda, one-fourth cup butter, two If3y beaten eggs. Make this into a batter dge, and add one-half pound raisins, one- iin, half pound currants, a little acid pre- eiart serves, one teaspoon each of nutmeg hiand cinnamon and one-half teaspoon it.s. cloves. Bake slowly, or boil two and tia half or three hours in a tin pail set in tlat, a kettle of water. Kedp covered whileme boiling. Serve with butter sauce. ofto CiA LOST ART. ofkelag by Huad Has aeome a Rare Oc- lapation. ti"hi .It seems to me that fine hand-sew- ater, ing is almost a lost art," said a lady 1iig who was noted for the daintiness of her ibelongings. "''1 have employed a num- it a ber of seamstresses, and while they canan arrange and put things together very ung well indeed, when it comes to fine fing- ishing they make a rather sad failureall of their work. I wonder that some ofug these people who pride themselves on r~Stheir skill with the needle do not takezx pains to learn some of the old-fashioned mSways of finishing. I had a special de- lir sire for a ruffle rolled and sewed onI over and over on a certain garment not"C long ago. I tried to get three or four Aan seamstresses to finish it, and finallyg was forced to do it myself, as none ofed them was able to complete the task in noLy- a satisfactory way. It isn't difficult, Esad either; it just needs a little careful one- handling, and really makes the pretti- chad eat of all finishings. paS "Handmade ruffles are so neat and vola dainty. Indeed, I never have any lack waP of those, for I keep some material cale always on hand in my workbasket, and pato when I have a half hour to sit down Ih- am never idle. One can accumulate a afte quantity of pretty ruffling hem- miil stitched bands by doing a feininutes tes work at a time, and they are wonder- necat fully handy when the seamstress comes Heto do the semiannual work. themd "It would be a good idea if there bia- could be sewing classes in all schools. siti** An afternoon could not be used to im]in better advantage than in training girls edSto use the needle. It is to be hoped nige that when we grow a little wiser we thed will take pains to teach branches in all whd of our public schools that will fit boys ChiSand girls alike for the home duties and Arlresponsbilities that are quite sure to '1d come to them all, s er r later."--t. peaLouis Republic. risEa Whaelmemase or emeworu. tr- To keep the amplexion and spirits eat? good, to puserve grace, strength ad edC agility of motion, there is no gymna- tenSIslum so valuable, no exercisel more ben- cla eSal In resulit thana sweeping, dusting, diet ma king beds, washing dishes and the Uamt poihin of brass and silver. One year var5 of snob muscular effort within doors,i togetr with regular exercise in open ijI air, will do more for a woman's com- thaC pISxon than all the ltions and po- :mades that were ever invented. Per- nayF imps the reason why housework does so 1y.rane more for women than games isSI te at thatexercise which is immed- .Iatly preoaetit e setars the spirit It .,ves wasa women erge to go on Iving,-:·-bIN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.tice -A St. Louis coroner's jury were 1egg, holding an inquest on a man who had Ich. been killed by an electric bolt, "andtwo were divided in opinion as to whether othe bolt was natural or artificial. i)ne -It is reported that Prof. Hermana fdis- has succeeded in photographing the l,ter; vowel sounds, by speaking them into a e1cite phonograph which reproduced them noth slowly. The vibrations were recorded 'De- by a micro-telephone, which had a small bmirror in the vibrating drum. A raynet of light reflected from the mirror re-li of corded its vibrations-that is to say,are the vibrations of the vowel soundsand on a traveling band of sensitized paper. o1ger -The European manufacturers of nled electrical apparatus are not as wide 'ian awake as their American brethren inod. the business. A short time ago the Emunicipal authorities of the smallup- Spanish town of Olot advertised for'al- bids for the concession for lighting thene town, and did not receive a single ten- star, der. A Belgium town advertised for ila tenders for lighting either by gas or eaily electricity, and not one firm responded.rot -An electrical horsewhip is the latt eat in France. The whip consists of a dny celluloid handle containing a small in- pduction coil, together with a battery, ofer, the circuit being closed by means of a slice spring push. Two wires carry the cur- foof rent to the extremity of the whip,ns. which is furnished with two small cop- iper plates having points fixed to themar of sufficient length to penetrate thei coat of the horse, and yet not being,et sharp enough to inflict a wound.tin -A western designer of advertising ion specialties has recently found severalways to make use of the electric lightof In several Chicago saloons are incandesit cent lamps in the form of beer bottles atle- of the ordinary pint size, but of Clear Wof glass, with the brewer's label pastedISa on the outside. In cigar stores are'dd cigar-shaped lamps with the names ofhe cigar manufacturers on the labels enIc- circling them. The grocery stores haveed lamps made in imitation of cakes of, ove soap, catsup bottles, etc.-An electric street railway company m,nt in Kalamazoo, Mich., is making use of stiLx aluminum disks for tickets, the first ivo attempt to use the metal for this pur. -a pose of which there is any record. lohtg The tickets are about the size of ath quarter of a dollar; a round one for co,il- full fare, and an octagonal one for foto children's fare. The people like the Fie. tickets, as they are light and clean. 'wiv- Conductors are not allowed to sell trithem on cars, but the right to sell hasise been given exclusively to certain stores, Sury which buy them of the company in $1sh lots. The tickets require no cancellaar tion, and as soon as they are turned T,k in to the company, they are sent to them stores to be again put on sale.he -Nearly 91 per cent of the vessels math using the Suez canal last year were froro able to pursue their journeys uninter- I then- rupted at night by using the electric pr1e. light, the percentage in the three pre- ye.s, ceding years having been 88.21, 82.5E knm- and 71.74 respectively. The author. littities of the canal will make it obliga. calr, tory for vessels passing through the pare canal by night, after the first of next puta• October, to employ apparatus for divid- an:o ing the light of the projector into two abst divergent rays. Approaching vessels face- may, by this means, travel right up to ence- each other without their respective' polg helmsmen4eing blinded. The diverg-' ofn ing apparatus which is to be used is' fond the invention of one of the agents of Nn the company. a slle -The success which attended the use it bof the electric light in fishing off the' ate.California coast has led to the devising forof various improved apparatus for thatpurpose. One of these consists of a wisr large iron frame interlaced with net- willting, which can be opened and closed In aat the will of the operator. An electric tleY light encased in a lantern is lowered rounr into the net, the electricity being fur thelnished by a motor in the bow of the iboat. As the boat moves along the Thinetwork is thrown open and the bright chillight of the lamp, which is seen at a cha'e great distance in the clear water, itarouses the curiosity of the fish, which tioureadily swim into the trap This is the it sln modern varient of the old method of cribSdestroying fish from a canoe by torch- whi- light che,SAPPLIED SCIENCE.r As Nleetrleiaa Who Made Good Use of beinisb Knowledsge. dulI A Brooklyn electrician has been an andSnoyed by cat concerts in his back yard. sibl;Every night the cat ranged themselves ageiI on the back fence and meowed in theichorns The leading tenor in the com- norpany was a monster with a falsetto thervoice of great range and power. He anywas particularly strong in roulade and worlcadenza, and some of his fartomento to dpassages were models in expression. justBunt the concerts became monotonous moeafter awhLle, and the electrician deter- creamined t;6 top them. He placed a thin find.steel plate on top of the fence and con- mosinected it with a motor in the kitchen. atteHe permitted the plate to remain on andthe fence for three nights, until the fewebig tenor had become accustomed to perssitting on it. The plate was a great foriimprovement as a seat over the ragged Lededge of the fence. On one moonlightnight the maltese soprano asoluta,the cherry-colored mezzo and the be- cwhiskered tenor robesto were singinga dinaChicago arrangement of "Maria, Where beArt Thou?"The tenor had reached a sustained adpassge surcharged with love, and had dentrisaen on his hind legs to give freer expressmion to it, when the current wasturaned on. The sustained pmsagewasacut in two as it with a cleaver. It end- eialed in a most 4lsoordaat squawk as the sotenor fell of the fence apon his back, haronly to boned in the air like a ball and jdisappear over the fenee and down the oastreet like a black comet--N. Y. Advertiser.esridam-semea V et. ramMr. 81amdiet-I wonder why it is halthat people never tire of coree? haveOld Boarder-I presme beause it menever tastes twice alike--N. Y. Weell -ly."lam so eorryfom that poorlette, fs 'aroter. Hehas to walk the floor everynight with his bab." -1-"You eas ed to walkig,"-T9m 84I MODES OF MIDSUMMER.ere They Show a Moderatom of the HaggsraaI ted Spring Styles.and Midsummer is not usually productiveser of new styles and while this season isnot an exception to the rule, the puriof Eying principle which has been at workthe in the fashions of the day has wroughtoa such acceptable results that this sumem mer is at least fruitful in promises ofwelcome changes in the autumn. It isall too early for really new developments,but with numerous and glaring defectseliminated it is reasonable to hope thatsomething more desirable and artisticY' may evolve from the chaotic conditionser. of the last few months. A whisperedof rumor says that the voluminous sleevede ! will soon entirely disappear, and coatin sleeves are already reduced in style.he Extreme fullness is now used only inall grenadine, crepon, and other soft materials. The Garibaldi style of sleeve,he I gathered into a bunch at the wrist, issure to follow in the wake of theleg-of- mutton shape, and is, perhaps, the lator est style.a Simplicity is becoming more andmore the stamp of fashion, and ift- rumor is correct some perfectly plaindresses have made their appearance in aParis, dresses without any semblance I7' of trimming on either the waist or thea skirt. One of the Parisan fancies isr- for glace silk gowns trimmed with li' pincked-out flounces. Basques arem slowly gaining in favor, but are as yetreserved for cloth dresses and traveling costumes A fancy style is a doubleg basque of silk or velvet cut to fit elly at the waist and forming a seriesSfluted plaits at the edge. iJ The most conspicuous feature of the Ipresent fashions is the use of lace, d. which is introduced in every imagin- tesm able manner in every sort of a gown.aI Whether the dress is black, white or vre colored, silk or gauze, there is a plentir ful supply of this popular trimming. bI, Chiffon comes next in popularity and is au- I used in a variety of ways When made.e over changeable silk it is an ideal ho gown.A lace-trimmed seaside costume isy made of soft wool goods diagonallyof striped with blue and red. The skirtt is ornamented with wide red'ribbon ti, run in and out and finished of in a ylooped knot on the right side. The osame ribbon is used foathe double belt nor confining the full bodice. Each belt is aDr fastened with a buckle. The yoke and I'a , Figaro vest with capelets are all of tiwhite guipure. A light straw hattrimmed with red ribbon and black h,s aigrety sets off the costume.-N. Y. q,SSun.1 DON'T WAKE THE BABY. t4cid The Habit of Sleep Sheld t Eaeraged rto In fants.It is one of the regular customs of PIs many households to take the new babye from crib or bed and exhibited it tor. I the admiring visitor. This is a badi ' practice all persons who have reachede. years of discretion ought certainly toie know, but this fact seems to have very dir.' little weight in the minds either of thes. caller or of the proud and happy a1e parents, who seem never to wearydf,t putting the new arrival on dress-parade is1. and sounding its praises That many iso a baby has been exhibited to death is ais fact well known to doctors and experi- rio enced nurses, but it is usually their tipolicy to keep silent, as any restriction m. of this sort is apt to be resented by1fond parents.,f No child should ever be roused from fa sleep to be shown to anybody unlesse it be the doctor, and the case is desper.e ate. To do so is to lay the foundation enfor restlessness, bad temper and many fat of the lls that infancy is heir to. It isI wise to encourage a child to sleep all it At, will, no matter how much that may be. loA In a strictly healthy condition the litS!tle one sleeps almost all the time,! rousing itself enough to be fed, when, ifathere is no reason for being disturbed, ait will usually drop off to sleep again. ,* This habit may be encouraged, and the mlt child may sleep longer if care is taken tos change its position without awakening dlit. This may be done by very cantiously drawing the blanket on which thit sleeps slightly toward one side of theScrib, then raising gently with one handSwhile the other is placed on the baby's achest; in this way it may be turned IMupon the other side without rousing it. abAfter a while it will get Mseustomed toI being turned, when it will usually in- adulge in one very long drawn breathand settle down as contentedly upos dssibly to finish its nap, Children of allI ages should sleep antil they waken of 4I their own accord. Neither breakfast f- nor anything else is as important to haSthemastosleep and grow. If onehas tiIany curiosity to study the practicalI working of this, let him try a few times oI to dosomethhing with a child that hasjust been roused from its slumbers. A diI more unmanageable, uncomfortablecreature one would go a long way to ThIfind. From infancy to age, sleep is amost important part of life; and it more sattention were given to when, whereand how we sleep,- there would befewer nervous invalids, fewer bad tempers and more bright eyes, stalwartforms and pleasant faes-aN. Y. iTheI Summer Desaktet.sFruit is usuall7 and properly the Lst _course at breakfast, as It is the las at ogdinner. If berries are used they shouldbe carefully picked over, and rised through a colander to remove the saaDd tand dust which are sure to be In evi- _dene, Peaches, pemrs, lmm sad our.anges may be served whole, afterahrving been kept on ee for twenty-heahours. If the peaces am neot eapeelaluy large sad fine it may be well to 1stslice them. Orangs sheuld be emt in ihalves, between the blossom and thetat end, and should be aten with an Yoorange spoon, or sleed, with the sUe Icarefully seeded and (vMend into quar. tastrs. nanass should have the skinsremoved and be aut lengthwise~ bthals or qurters Catalolpes shcudheve the tops sisled R, the seeds removed and them empty spacies lled with I &le. Watermaeloas are most evenekr m thely erved by soot at from the smohrt of the mae tableepoofor each peraon-adee c. ownal. B-11 These oists Lore om8er F'-IIt -l ing...1e l~wS·IbI ?THEY MADE HIM TIRED.ra*- They Were Tee Fall of Fight to Suiat bQuiet Spirit.ive It was a curious circumstance, andn is everybody in the smoking car seemedri- to catch on atthesame moment. Onork the right-hand side sat a man with asht cow-boy's hat, woolen shirt, red neckam- tie, pants in his bootlegs, and a generalof air of toughness. Opposite himsat anis other man similarly attired, but with Iits, the addition of a grizzly bear's paw for IetE a scarfpin. One had been with us fortht over an hour-the last had just boarded I'tic the train.)ns These two men at once began to size.red each other up and sneer and look saer Iave castie. Finally the man on the rightat- meanly observed:'le "I reekon your bag of Injun scalps is 1in in the baggage car, eh?" ia- "Yes, but my guns are yere!" prompte ITe, ly responded the other. d,is "What's the use of guns unlessys yeof known how to shoot?"at- "What's tl use of gab if you don'tback it up?" 'nd They were now hot and ready for oif more, and it soon came. ain "Out on our ranch we size sich fellers Iin as you up for wolf bait," said the right-.ice handed man. 0he "Is that so? Wall, out on our ranch tis we don't wait to size up chaps like you.Lth We knows 'em a mile a way for are duffers."'et "Take that back"' tel- .'Never!"bale They both sprang up and of counp arushed forward to stop the fight. i0 by was a man who had been trying to get to sleep to cure a headache. 12he He sprangup, peeledoff his cost, threw tw*e, down his hat, and shouted at the two Pn- terrors:n- "Both of you sit down!" as if deathor wasn't ave feet away. ati- They dropped back on the seats like 0rg. bags of sand and he stood over them ais and demanded of the one on the right: yle "Where do you camp when you're at iis home?" tr"In Ohio," was the meek reply. mis "And you?" bly "In Indiana." dlrt "I guess that's right. That's about atSthe way I sizedyou p Just a word to a]a you. Shut right up` Don't peep anae other peep about b'ars, Injuns orIt ranches, or shootin'. You have made ois me tired, and if there's any more of itLd I'll drop both of you off this car into atf the ditch." deit He went back to his seat to nurse his tik headache, and the two terrors sat so evt. quietly for the next hour that some of inus wondered if they hadn't been scared thto death. Later on one of them fondly hrcaressed his b'ar claws and the other fad read a dime novel, and they were at o0peace with all the world.-Detroit Free hiPress. tbo A PARADOX OF THE POLE.d Queer Thhigs About That Imuiag ry spot hto the North of Us. th0 At the north pole there is only one th7 direction-south. On could go south in mte as many ways as there are points on the hecompass card, but every one of these Tiways is south-east and west have vanished. 'The hour of the day at the poley is a paradoxical conception, for that Wa point is the meeting pihe of every met- ridlan and the time of all holds good, sor that it is always any hour one cares to pmention. Unpunctuality is hence Imy possible-but the question grows complex, and its practical solution concernsn few.No one needs to go to the pole to dis- icover all that makes that point different from any other point of the surSface. But the whole polar regions arefull of unknown things, which everyt Arctjc explorer of the rig `sttamp ellooks forward to findings nd the reward he looks forwar most is the rieapproval of the few who understandand love knowledge for its own sake, marather than the noisy applause of the kWcrowd who would cheer hieartter all,much as they cheer a winning prizefighter, or race horse, or political oandidate. myThe difeilties that make the questof Wthe pole so arduous have been discovered aiby slow degrees. It is marelos howrigsoon nearly the full limits of northward attainment were reached. In1 596 Barents discovered Spitabergen inabout 78 degrees north; in 1770 Haudson Hereached 80 degMrees; in 1897 Parry, bysledging oa the ice when his ship be- evcame fast, suaceaeded in touehing s wedegrees and 45 minutes. Sines then allthe enormous resources of modernseIence-steam, electricty, preservedfoods and the experienee of centuries-have only enabled forty miles of additional poleward advance to be made.The map gives a fair idea ofts he form blsof the Arctic regions, and remember- Biling that the cirle marked 80 degrees Etdistant 700 miles froa' the pole, the Ireader na realise the dsaoe involved. didSThe Arctic basin, oeapiled by the AreStic sea, is ringed in by land; the north- Peran coasts of America. Europe aad Asia, hiforming a roughly crclar bondary,broken by three well-a*·ded channels stacommunicating with the oesa. Behbring Strait, between Ameries ad Asiais the narrowest BaSi bay betweea *bAmerica ad (horeenland is wider, ybranehing into anumber of iee-bloeked Gaounds toathe westward, sad tapering iof into Smith soand i tohe northeat maThe widest chanel of the three lies Debetwmn Greenlad and mEurope, andthis is biected just serth of dqgreesnorath by the isola gasoup e Spitaber- -sIr.--MeChlure's Xaq e. athe39*r*** aIb ms. NilPrak-Wish me luck! I sam gong witInto the eemeervatcsy to propose to of8Miss Danrlagton ABarIry-Well, bramce up, old me theYou look rigthtally depressed, tePramk-Ah, yel I far I am ginagtinto a delne.--Trut. bsrown-Rw i yor so M ming ea tIsRzoblaseu-I is the laiest boy inBarleam. le gets np at Ave o'eleek tithe aratng oa c am have nll themaos ~ eto laL.-Teaae fila.p ')r-- MrpsOrety. .Mw~-.-I~do~¶thlmk RheK~-·bkw*S *h!~lrt~;~I THE BAGGAGE SMASHER.tI. Three CheersU Lttle Stories Resaled by aMiddle.Aged Citisen.Ind "I look in vain in the literature of thered day," said a middle-aged man, "for stoOn ries of the baggage smasher, such asi a were current thirty or forty years ago,ek- which used to interest me very much.ral Who that Is old enough can not recallin- the story of the baggage master sadith the circus man's snake? The circusfor man's trunks, it will be remembered,for had been at one time and anotherled pretty roughly handled, and so one dayhe got a rather flimsy trunk and put inize it a boa constrictor twenty-two feets. long, and he marked on the outside:,ht "Don't break! Boa constrictor inside!"" 'Oh. I've just been waiting for someis body to ship a boa constrictor by thisline,' said the baggage smasher, and hept- grabbed the trunk by one of its handles, intending to toss it over his head,ye but he yanked with such sudden energy that he pulled the handle offa't Then he kicked the trunk over theother end up and grabbed it by the!or other handle, lifted it and dropped itand smashed, it wide open, and theresre was a snake in it, and the snake camert- out and uncoiled himself, and when hecoiled himself up again he was aroundch the baggage master, andu. "The baggage master never checkedor any baggage after that.Another story told of the tribulations of a traveler whose trunk hadbeen smashed and how fltUlly he filleda, a big trunk with dynamite and markedt, it 'Handle with Carel Dynamite.'y- "'Dynamite ----r said the baggage1e. master, with fine scorn, and he pulledw the trunk down from the top of a highro pile aPd let it fall on one corner, and"He never returned.th "Then there was the story about theangered traveler who placed upon there corners of his trunk patches of somem material so elastic and springy that ifit: you dropped the trunk hard it boundedat into the air thousands of feet. Thistrunk came to the station on the summit of a great load of trunks, and thebaggage master seized it by the handie, braced one foot against the load,;it and. pulled the trunk off and let falluo pon one corner andm. "It never came back.ir "And the owner sued and recoveredIs for the loss of his trunk.it "It might not be easy in aj ragraphto conclusively to assign rea `for thedecline of the trunk story. Certainlyis the baggage master is as powerftul asIo ever, and surely he can not khfe lost>f in the comparatively brief period ofd thirty or folty years that fine sense ofy humor that once prompted him play;r fully to drop a trunk and break it wide *t open. It seems more probable that hehas shared with the rest of mankind iathat steadily advancing refinement ofmetho4s which has marked our progrevs in recent years that he is. not lees, humorous, but only less boisterous,than he was; and it may be, too, thate the fact that trunks generally aren made stronger than they were hase had something to do with it"-N. Y.te Times.! A WELL-FIXED COUNTRYMAN.it Pebailty that He Wi S soon umbah isUrban Speculsttie.On a western road sat two admirablespecimens of the genus "hayseed."· They were garrulous old chaps, andi talked and chewed tobacco aq a schoola girl chews gum."I reckon we'll lose Ben Gross aforelong," said one, branching off on afresh topic."Eh?"-"Yeas-'t won't s'ptise me a bitef Ben goes to New York an' speckelates.""Nol You don't say Ben's a gittin' 'srich 's that?"i "Wall, I guess he's 'bout the bestrzedman in our place now since W. F. Siap.kins died.""Ye do't say! How much d'ye s'poseBen's, $oth now, biled down?""Wall, ye ketl't jest tell I know o'my own sartin knowledge he has over$40 in the bank, an' his crop o' tatersain't dug ylt. They'll bring him inright smart o' cash.""Gee whiz""Yass, an' John Summers owes him3.75T on-that old game of poker yit.He's slow, but he's good forit, I tuess."The other was silent for some time,evidently ruminating upon such vastwealth. Then he suddenly inquired:"W'at's he goin' to monkey with inNew York?"'"Iduanna Wallstreet, like as not."-N. Y. Herald.A Blat to IseThe grave young man in ordinaryblack ledther shoes was reading hisBible when the summer girl in whiteEton jacket entered the car.The young man's lips moved, but hedid not.He pretended not to see.Presently a look of pain flitted arosehis face."Ecuse me," he growled. "you arestandinag on my feet"She smiled sweetly."I beg your pardon," she murmured,"but yea did not seem to be using themyourselt"Glowering feroeiously at the daintysppers beneath the snowy skirt, hemasd his way to the front platftarm.-Detroit Tribunae.Nole lleustum et.A perspiring German, who had onlyan indanite knowledge of the wagys ofthe telephome, enteredthe eseangecsMilk street the other da~,drippwith perspiration and carry aof gardea he over his left shoulder .After beag Judtosed that le was iathe right piase to have any watnt sat.tsded to, he leld:S me.-a " ...e e.ssbuua ab'l a -brwowy."ed the cedrk whog s as loedlpe afourt of July slnastu.-Lseudqea UoiLbq so anesyernl thee Itores 4smaiI'am sure, yo cried $bst as j suhqta ..dsl